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Board upholds permit for 3160 Jackson Street after reviewing shoring plans; neighbors to receive submitted engineering documents
Summary
After extensive testimony about a 25-foot excavation and an aging retaining wall, the Board of Appeals voted 4–0 to deny the Adairs' appeal and uphold the planning department and DBI approvals for 3160 Jackson Street, while asking the permit holder to provide engineers' shoring and monitoring plans to the appellants and DBI.
The San Francisco Board of Appeals on March 19 denied an appeal from neighbors Lana and John Adair and upheld the planning approval and Department of Building Inspection (DBI) site permit for work at 3160 Jackson Street, finding the project code compliant. The vote was 4–0.
The appeal centered on a proposed deep excavation — the permit holder’s team described the overall excavation as about 25 feet — adjacent to a roughly century-old unreinforced concrete retaining wall on the Adairs’ property. The Adairs hired structural engineer Daryl Harris, who told the board he found large cracks in the existing wall, no reinforcing steel and a foundation that appeared “marginally designed.” Harris said the proposed excavation would go roughly 15 feet below the bottom of that wall and that, without the project team’s shoring…
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